Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
“Watching her hair thin, and finally fall out completely, was so sad. She wears beautiful scarves and hats, but there’s something different about having hair, ” said Stacey Brusca ’10. Imagine visibly watching someone who is usually a bastion of strength go through their most vulnerable moments. For cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, this is a […]
Marci McPhee of Brandeis’ International Center for Ethics is a very sensible woman, and therefore, has a very sensible vagina. In fact, if her vagina could dress itself, it would wear unscented panty shields due to its sensible nature. If Stephanie Grimes of the Office of Student Life’s vagina wore clothes, it would wear sweatpants, […]
Climbing into a dumpster to insert smoke machines for an art exhibit? Some might call this supporting artistic vision. Others would say, are you crazy? For Roy Dawes, Assistant Director for Operations at Brandeis’ Rose Art Museum, it’s all in a day’s work. This August will mark Dawes’ fifth year at the Rose Art Museum. […]
Social life at Brandeis. Apparently this is a touchy topic. When asked, most people will avert their eyes, cross their arms, and halfheartedly state, “it’s what you make of it.” Then they’ll mumble something about Rosenthal or one of the semi-existent frats and walk away. Pachanga and Exstasy were the alleged answers to the challenge […]
Brandeis students know how they want to spend their summer vacations. A quick glance through Hiatt’s internship search engine shows dozens of positions in almost every field imaginable—arts management, banking, forestry—and in locations ranging from New York to Japan to the Brandeis campus. “An internship is definitely the best way to spend your break,” said […]
The Jeep Compass outside East Pomerantz had another parking violation for being parked just outside the main entrance rather than in a spot in the lot. Why is it always parked there? Is that guy so reliant on his car that he can’t make it past the door without it? I have a car that’s […]
As 12 students and their tour guide climbed up the 320 steps to the copula of the crypts of St. Peter’s and celebrated mass in one of the small chapels, the blending of several different languages filled the walls, reverberating all around, and hitting their ears. No, this isn’t some creative writing story, and it’s […]
It’s 2 o’clock on a Monday. Lower Usdan and Sherman have just closed for lunch. But Emily Gelb ‘11 has only eaten a Luna bar, despite having woken up at 9:15 and gone to two classes. Gelb, unlike a typical college student, hasn’t skipped a meal because she is pressed for time, or because she’s […]
5 seconds. Not much more than a heartbeat. Not much more than a slight turn of the head. Not much of anything. Yet within those 5 seconds, a person in a different part of the world just died. Be it a father, a mother, a son, or a daughter. Be it an Aunt or an […]
The trips taken by last semester’s first Environmental Field Semester participants involved visiting a lot of farms and parks, but that’s where the similarities to a first grade field trip end. Introduced last semester by Professors Laura Goldin, Brian Donahue and Dan Perlman, the Environmental Field Semester was designed to educate students about the environment […]
